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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Italian data protection authority fines Enel €79 million Italy’s data protection regulator, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, has fined the country’s largest utility company, Enel, more than €79 million for misusing customer data for telemarketing.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list The past two weeks, we’ve found 2,038,302,060 records known to be compromised, and 797 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 711 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or breached.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. You know, it isn't the blackout scenario.